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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Maps, charts & atlases
Especially for those who have obtained the recent facsimile copy of
George Bradshaw's tourist's guide book. This detailed and
attractive map clearly shows the many railways that had been built
at the height of "Railway Mania" along with hundreds of railway
stations throughout Great Britain and Ireland, allowing the
enthusiast to follow the routes from a bygone age. Originally
published in 1852 by Bradshaw and Blacklock it has now been art
worked and re-mastered. George Bradshaw's Railway Map of Great
Britain and Ireland is a visual record of when train travel was at
its height - when railways were really golden - and his guides
burst with pride about them. George Bradshaw's map also illustrates
the eight "Environs" plans of London, Birmingham, Manchester,
Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. The paper stock
used in this series of historic mapping is of a high quality
developed especially for the printing of detailed mapping. The 90
gsm "Progeo" paper was specially developed as a map paper. It has
high opacity to help reduce show through and a cross grain giving
it greater durability as the map is being folded.
National Geographic Wall Maps offer a special glimpse into current
and historical events, and they inform about the world and
environment. Offered in a variety of styles and formats, these maps
are excellent reference tools and a perfect addition to any home,
business or school. There are a variety of map options to choose
from, including the world, continents, countries and regions, the
United States, history, nature and space. Scale : 1:5,200,000 Flat
Size : 1067 x 762 mm.
Taste your way to whisky wisdom. The best way to find out about
whisky is by drinking it. Perfect for the whisky curious, this
truly hands-on handbook helps you to discover your own personal
whisky style, opening up a world of new whiskies to enjoy. Tailored
tasting sessions steer you through the full spectrum of whisky's
aromas and flavours - from the smoky tang of Islay peat to the
sandalwood scents of Japanese oak. Take a tasting tour and compare
whiskies from the world's finest makers, including iconic Scottish
distilleries and trailblazing craft producers. Get the very best
from your whisky, with insider tips on smart buying, making perfect
food matches and mixing killer cocktails. With 20 step-by-step
tastings, and brimming with clear infographics and jargon-busting
advice - as a gorgeous gift for any fan of the dram, this book hits
the spot.
What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant
reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by
examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San
Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and
twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city
and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants,
Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think
about place. She explores the area thematically - connecting, for
example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture
technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo". Across an
urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly
unlimited landmarks and treasures - butterfly habitats, queer
sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist
centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and
conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission
District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market
world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more.
Breathtakingly original, this atlas of the imagination invites us
to search out the layers of San Francisco that carry meaning for us
- or to discover our own infinite city, be it Cleveland, Toulouse,
or Shanghai. Contributors include: Cartographers - Ben Pease and
Shizue Seigel; Designer - Lia Tjandra; Artists - Sandow Birk, Mona
Caron, Jaime Cortez, Hugh D'Andrade, Robert Dawson, Paz de la
Calzada, Jim Herrington, Ira Nowinski, Alison Pebworth, Michael
Rauner, Gent Sturgeon and Sunaura Taylor; Writers and researchers -
Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad,
Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine
Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith and Richard
Walker; and, Additional cartography - Darin Jensen, Robin
Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, as well as San Francisco Estuary
Institute.
Explore the cartographic treasures of the British Library's
extensive map archive, and add your own colour. Early maps are
often much more highly decorated than our own, featuring
fantastical drawings of real or imaginary people and animals that
may or may not occupy unknown places. Medieval maps look very
different to the maps of today. Significant places were given
prominence and historical or religious events were frequently
included. This new colouring book is packed with a series of
fascinating hand drawn maps carefully selected from the extensive
collection of the British Library, which includes charters and
seals, medieval historical and iconic atlas' from Queen Mary I's
personal collection and King George III's to detailed drawings from
well-known artists such as Nicolas Sanson and William Hack. Each of
the original maps is reproduced in colour, so that you can decide
whether you prefer to choose your own colours, or to use the
colours that the cartographer intended. With key facts about each
of the maps, this is the perfect book for geography lovers, history
buffs and colouring-in fanatics alike.
Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on
the county's history. The low-lying parts of Lincolnshire are
covered by an array of maps of intermediate scope, covering a
greater area than a single parish but less than the whole county.
Typically produced in connection with drainage or water transport,
and considerably predating the Ordnance Survey, to which many are
comparable, they go back as far as the medieval period, with the
remarkable Kirkstead Psalter Map of the West and Wildmore Fens
[c.1232-39], and continue to the late nineteenth century. . This
volume covers the Witham Valley, with the East, West and Wildmore
Fens north of Boston, but extending as far as Grantham and
Skegness, reproducing the most important of the maps and listing
the less useful ones. The history of the drainage of the area is
unusually dramatic. By 1750 the Witham was a failed river: the
winter floods were worse than they had been for centuries and
navigation from Boston to Lincoln had ceased. Over the following
sixty years, local interests, aided by some able engineers, brought
both navigation and drainage to a state of perfection that made
Lincolnshire prosperous and fed the industrial north. These maps,
reproduced here to a very high quality and in both colour and black
and white, are an essential tool for understanding this history,
and the volume thus illuminates certain episodes that have
previously been opaque. They are accompanied by a cartobibliography
and introduction.
Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in
this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War
Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from
their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert
historian. Over 150 maps tell the story of how this global war was
fought. Types of maps featured: * Strategic maps showing theatres
of war, frontiers and occupied territories * Maps covering key
battles and offensives on major fronts * Planning and operations
maps showing defences in detail * Propaganda and educational maps
for the armed forces and general public * Maps showing dispositions
of Allied and enemy forces * Bomber and V-weapon target maps
Descriptions of key historical events accompany the maps, giving an
illustrated history of the war from an expert historian. Key topics
covered include * 1939: Invasion of Poland * 1940: German invasion
of Low Countries & France * 1940: Battle of Britain &
German invasion threat * Dec 1941: Pearl Harbor * 1942: Turning
points: Midway, Alamein, Stalingrad * 1941-45: Barbarossa and the
Eastern Front * The War at Sea * The advances to Jerusalem,
Damascus and Baghdad * The War in the Air * 1944: Neptune &
Overlord; D-Day & liberation of France
Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully
designed and packaged. The authority and accuracy of a top range
Times World Atlas at an affordable price. The atlas comes in a
protective slipcase and has been fully updated with extra
information next to each map. The reference mapping, produced in
the beautifully clear and distinctive Times style has been
completely updated with thousands of changes reflecting recent
geopolitical and geographical change around the world. As with all
atlases in the Times range it offers great authority, outstanding
quality and attention to detail. Includes; * Detailed up-to-date
reference mapping * Geographical reference section with flags,
statistics and facts for all the world's countries * Extra
information beside each map * A fascinating collection of maps from
the last 150 years of world atlases included in a historical
mapping section * Over 50,000 index entries "The definitive guide
book to the world. It makes your mind run wild and your feet itch."
Jake Meyer
Place-Names of Carmarthenshire is the first publication to
investigate all major place-names in the historic county of
Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county
transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996. Tracing the history
of Welsh place-names casts light upon the ways in which our
ancestors lived and how they thought about the world around them.
The meaning of place-names, however, is not always easy to
determine because their written and spoken forms have often changed
over time and particularly when the language in a particular
location switched from Welsh to English. Fortunately,
Carmarthenshire was not so markedly affected in this respect as
many other parts of Wales but it is still easy to be mislead by
modern spellings: Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen) does not recall the name
of the mythological Myrddin (Merlin) in the Arthurian tales but is
derived from morddin (mor / 'sea' and din / 'fort') describing a
Roman maritime fort - the precursor of the medieval borough;
Llanboidy does not contain a llan ('church') but rather a nant
('stream') located near a beudy ('cow-shed'); Castelldwyran
actually means 'Durant's castle', being composed of castell
('castle') and an Anglo-Norman personal name Durant, rather than
dwyran ('two-thirds'). Illustrated with many images of the county,
Place-Names of Carmarthenshire examines more than 920 place-names
and features a 1,000-entry Glossary of place-name elements,
personal names and rivers, and is the result of the author's
detailed research in archives and reference libraries.
In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington
Atlas" re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from
the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North
Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries.
Its large format (13 1/4 x 18 in. or 33.7 x 46.4 cm) has been
custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier, MapQuest.com,
Inc., and is unrivaled for range, clarity, and detail. Over 70
experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from
satellite-generated aeronautical charts to return the modern
landscape to its ancient appearance, and to mark ancient names and
features in accordance with the most up-to-date historical
scholarship and archaeological discoveries. Chronologically, the
Barrington Atlas spans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and
no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are
used to represent most regions.
Since the 1870s, all attempts to map the classical world
comprehensively have failed. The "Barrington Atlas" has finally
achieved that elusive and challenging goal. It began in 1988 at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, under the direction of
the distinguished ancient historian Richard Talbert, and has been
developed with approximately $4.5 million in funding support.
The resulting "Barrington Atlas" is a reference work of
permanent value. It has an exceptionally broad appeal to everyone
worldwide with an interest in the ancient Greeks and Romans, the
lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they
encountered in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Scholars and
libraries should find it essential. It is also for students,
travelers, lovers of fine cartography, and anyone eager to retrace
Alexander's eastward marches, cross the Alps with Hannibal,
traverse the Eastern Mediterranean with St. Paul, or ponder the
roads, aqueducts, and defense works of the Roman Empire. For the
new millennium the "Barrington Atlas" brings the ancient past back
to life in an unforgettably vivid and inspiring way.
Map-by-Map Directory
A Map-by-Map Directory to the Barrington Atlas is available
online (http: //press.princeton.edu/B_ATLAS/B_ATLAS.PDF) and in a
separate two-volume print edition of close to 1,500 pages. The
Directory is designed to provide information about every place or
feature in the Barrington Atlas. The section for each map
comprises: a concise text drawing attention to special difficulties
in mapping a region, such as extensive landscape change since
antiquity, or uneven modern exploration.a listing of every name and
feature on the map, with basic data about the period of occupation,
the modern equivalents of ancient placenames, the modern country
within which they are located, and brief references to relevant
ancient testimony or modern studies.a bibliography of works
cited.
The Map-by-Map Directory is an essential accompaniment to the
"Barrington Atlas." As a uniquely rich, comprehensive, up-to-date
distillation of evidence and scholarship, it has no match elsewhere
and opens the way to an immense variety of further research
initiatives
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